Introduction In early November, 2017 three non-profit kink organizations (Center for Positive Sexuality, National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, and The Alternative Sexualities Health Research Alliance) released a group position paper “opposing the addiction model in relation to frequent sexual behavior and pornography viewing.” The groups’ press release, Position statement opposing sex/porn addiction model, explained their […]
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“We have a huge part of our brain dedicated to sex. What do you want to train your brain to be aroused to? Real people, or bodies on a screen?” Great podcast about the latest research on porn use and relationships. Listen here […]
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Who am I? I am normal heterosexual man. I was thinking that I am into femdom, or trans women, or asexual, but now i know that i am normal. Why I started pmo? Curiosity, good feeling etc. Why it escalated to femdom and shemale porn? I was looking normal porn in begin, later i moved […]
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I am currently on Day 404 of NoFap. As a sophomore in high school now, life has been so productive and great. My brain is growing faster than my body, spiritually and intellectually. My brain craves new information every day. And masturbation and porn I have now quit permanently. They mean nothing to me now, […]
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On Sunday I will have gone 60 days without porn, and 18 days without masturbating and I haven’t felt this good in a long time. I just wanted to tell my story about quitting porn, what it has done to me and how far I’ve come now. I am not sure when it started, but […]
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Introduction A number of articles and interviews have attempted to push-back at the TIME article (“Porn and the Threat to Virility”) and the Utah resolution declaring internet porn a public health problem. What might be a few “dead giveaways” that such an article is nothing more than a propaganda piece? Psychologists David Ley and/or Nicole […]
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Introduction This page, and a second page, provide empirical support for claims put forth in The Great Porn Experiment | Gary Wilson | TEDxGlasgow (and The Demise of Guys, by Philip Zimbardo). Each PowerPoint slide and associated text is accompanied by (1) the original supporting citations/sources, followed by (2) supporting studies and clinical evidence published […]
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I used porn to masturbate since I was about 11 and didn’t know it would be a problem until last August when my girlfriend and I got together. All was well until the first time we tried to get intimate – I just couldn’t get excited. Luckily she was very supportive and told me it […]
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J Behav Addict. 2017 Oct 16:1-12. doi: 10.1556/2006.6.2017.063. Lewczuk K1, Szmyd J2, Skorko M3, Gola M3,4. Abstract Background and aims Previous studies examined psychological factors related to treatment seeking for problematic pornography use (PU) among males. In this study, we focused on females who seek treatment for problematic PU and compared them with non-problematic […]
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I do not have “superpowers”, I simply have my identity back. Granted, when you haven’t felt these things for years upon years, getting them back seems almost surreal but the truth is NoFap does not give you these proclaimed powers. Hell, to avoid sounding like I’m an authority on the subject, I’ll rephrase it and […]
Read More… from Age 23 – Anxiety, depression and brainfog gone. Motivation sky-high and rising. Confidence all the way up. Energy and desire for women are back.